Theodore 'Ted' Weidner, a professor of engineering practice at Purdue, has decades of experience as a facilities and construction manager at public and private institutions. He thinks people interested in the discipline might enjoy these books.

Professor Xiulin Ruan and associate professor Amy Marconnet have invented patent-pending, solid-state, continuously tunable thermal devices to dissipate heat from batteries, insulate them against cold and function across a wide range of temperatures.

Adam Dix won for his journal publication, "A Novel Friction Factor Model for Wire-Wrapped Rod Bundles."

“It is always our priority to provide an opportunity for our audience and our diverse partners to learn from one another,” said Pallavi Gupta, LASER PULSE program director.

The Summer Institute for Climate Change & Coastal Resilience, a STEM and social science research project, will bring together high school students, Purdue students and K-12 teachers to conduct research in Puerto Rico with leading faculty from Purdue and the University of Puerto Rico.

An EPICS team is working with a beep baseball team in Indianapolis to redesign the ball the league uses.

Greg Shaver, a mechanical engineering professor and director of Purdue’s Herrick Labs, is researching large diesel engines to improve on-the-road efficiency and emissions.

The Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility is a 65,000-square-foot building that is home to two cutting-edge wind tunnels, the only Mach 8 quiet wind tunnel in the world and the HYPULSE reflected shock/expansion tunnel.

A three-day conference brought together 180 people at the tops of their fields in government, academia and the private sector to explore the theme, “ethics in the global innovation helix,” with particular attention to defining and confronting the big questions surfacing around AI.

LASER PULSE, the global consortium led by Purdue Engineering, convened university leaders and researchers from around sub-Saharan Africa in Kampala, Uganda, on April 12-13.